The Scottish Independence Referendum as a European issue: What lessons can be learned by Scotland from the Czecho-Slovak experience?
2014
Abstract
In spite of a tendency to conceive the partition of Czechoslovakia as a model case for some other countries' division, the British/ Scottish case seems to display many more fundamental differences, particularly in the institutional framework and post-transitional Czechoslovak situation, than similarities. Any idea of "lessons taken" may be imagined only in terms of the "technical" aspect of the partition (peaceful, negotiated, fairly well-administered), and not in terms of the structural causes of both crises.